2024-05-15 04:39:38
“Livonia” repeatedly participates on this worldwide rugby-7 event of sturdy groups. Final yr we reached the semi-finals and obtained the fourth place. This yr, two weeks after the success within the first stage of the Latvian championship, a harder check awaited the “Livonia” rugby-7 gamers coached by Edmunda Ščavinskas and led by Mārčs Ruļļ in Šauli, the place the Livonians went in a “combined” formation, together with the gamers of the membership’s first and second groups, who have been joined by RK “Mītava ” younger rugby gamers.
This yr, six groups from three nations – Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine – participated within the fashionable rugby-7 event in Šiauliai. The house staff was probably the most represented, specifically with three groups – “Baltrex”, “Baltrex” backups and the Lithuanian U18 nationwide staff. “Livonia” and “Miesnieki” had gone from Latvia to Šiauliai, however the Ukrainian nationwide staff represented the three nations.
The event began with group video games. The six groups have been divided into two teams of three every. Within the RK Livonia group, Baltrex and the Lithuanian U18 nationwide staff confronted one another. First, within the ensuing recreation, after an unsuccessful begin, they misplaced to the youth staff of the southern neighbors with 16:31, however then with 7:38 they needed to admit the prevalence of “Baltrex”. Thus, the Livonians took third place and within the ultimate match of the event met with “Miesnieki”, who additionally skilled two losses (with 5:14 to Ukrainians and 5:36 to “Baltrex” backups) and have been third within the second group.
Within the duel between the Latvian groups, as final yr, “Livonia” was superior, which left no hope for the opponents this time (in 2023, each groups have been drawn in the identical pair within the quarter-finals, the place “Livonia” received 14:7 – creator’s notice). Livonians, who received the primary stage of the Latvian championship, beat the butchers convincingly this yr with 34:5 and thus received the fifth place. The house staff “Baltrex” grew to become the winners of the event, which defeated the Ukrainian nationwide staff 17:12 in an intense and related ultimate recreation.
Mārcis Rullis states that it was deliberate to beat the Lithuanian youth staff and hoped for the semi-finals, however the unsuccessful begin of the sport prevented that. “The principle concept was to win the youth staff. Unfortunate first 5 minutes, through which we allowed three touchdowns and two conversions, the outcome grew to become 0:19, after which we didn’t get well. The explanation was inadequate focus and in addition the truth that the gamers are younger, that’s, they have not performed but. Later we managed to repair the whole lot and the sport went.”
“As all the time, there have been sturdy groups within the event, however we might have been within the semi-finals,” concludes Rullis and on the identical time praises the younger Lithuanians: “The Lithuanian U18 nationwide staff is robust, they’ve been taking part in collectively for a very long time, they’ve performed collectively and they’re severely getting ready to compete internationally.”
“We performed in response to the plan that was created and labored on below the management of Edmunda Ščavinska. On this event, we wished to check our energy in opposition to sturdy groups from different nations, in addition to sooner and higher-level groups than in Latvia,” says the rugby specialist from “Livonia”.
2024-05-15 04:39:38